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T V Smith

Contains 1 collection item, 1 performance, 2 in total. Currently showing 2 in total.

Assured himself of immortality in 1976 by forming first-wave UK punk band The Adverts, who burned briefly but brightly in the rock 'n' roll firmament. Gradually morphed into an acoustic troubadour without losing any of his punk credibility.

  • Video recording of Covent Garden show 26 May 1993

    Video recording of Covent Garden show 26 May 1993

    26 March 1993
    VHS tape of Apples & Snakes show at Covent Garden Community Centre, 26 May 1993, featuring John Cooper Clarke, TV Smith, Ann Ziety & Joe Cairo
  • John Cooper Clarke, TV Smith, Joe Cairo, Ann Ziety

    John Cooper Clarke, TV Smith, Joe Cairo, Ann Ziety

    26 March 1993 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
    Immortalised on the earliest video recording of an A&S show at Covent Garden Community Centre – which reveals that the ‘special guests’ promised on the flyer are, in fact, Joe Cairo. Looks like a good, freewheeling evening, with JCC on top form, and still doing the same jokes that he ...
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